More young people are pro-choice – proof that progress is winning (or will)

Two-thirds of young people think abortion should be legal in all or most cases – a glimmer of good news in a time of few wins

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Trip down memory lane: When number of women in Congress rose above 10% in 92, one of the old men there told Pat Schroeder “I really hope you're happy. This is beginning to look like a shopping mall.” https://t.co/MoHaM7eNVB

Wow! This Man Who Thinks Women Matter Doesn’t Even Have Daughters: https://t.co/kzBaaZ8LWp pic.twitter.com/UqROvrIZwk

As recently as 2009, female senators couldn’t use the pool in the congressional gym because some of their male colleagues liked to swim naked. https://t.co/Jx1kYNQ3XJ pic.twitter.com/YzThnkSKrW

This is how #prolife politics work around the world: Wealthy and well-connected men treat abortion restrictions as political leverage because it's not their lives, and they know they can always rely on the procedure for women in their lives who need it. https://t.co/V2ZUZjlhHq

Continue reading... April 21, 2018 at 07:30PM